6a5a9a2a-730b-49f7-9e42-2295040aee56 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:23:07 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Chemical composition of Central Asian forage plants 2017-09-20 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/6a5a9a2a-730b-49f7-9e42-2295040aee56 10.5285/6a5a9a2a-730b-49f7-9e42-2295040aee56 doi: Robinson, S.J. (2017). Chemical composition of Central Asian forage plants. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/6a5a9a2a-730b-49f7-9e42-2295040aee56 The database of chemical composition of Central Asian forage plants contains just under 1000 desert and steppe species with information such as Latin and Russian names and family and related records of chemical composition from various sources including percentages by weight of protein, ash, cellulose and fat. Where available, it also includes data on digestible protein content, metabolisable energy and Soviet Feed Units (SFU). Records also include information on the country, location, season or month and phenological phase at time of collection of each sample. As one of the original uses of the database was for modelling food and energy intake by the saiga antelope, it also includes information identifying saiga food plant species along with sources of this information. Data on the edibility of many species for livestock in different seasons are also available. See the detailed documentation available here for more information on the data types, definitions and sources. NB The database is in text format and must be imported e.g. into relational database software, as Unicode (UTF-8) in order to convert the Cyrillic characters in Russian names. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/6a5a9a2a-730b-49f7-9e42-2295040aee56 Robinson, S. Oxford University, visiting researcher sarah.robinson09@gmail.com pointOfContact Robinson, S.J. University of Oxford sarah.robinson09@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7365-8423 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian notPlanned Habitats and Biotopes theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Kazakhstan GeoNames 2006-01-01 creation Central Asia forage otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Robinson, S.J. (2017). Chemical composition of Central Asian forage plants. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/6a5a9a2a-730b-49f7-9e42-2295040aee56 textTable English utf8 biota 45 90 35 56 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/6a5a9a2a-730b-49f7-9e42-2295040aee56 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/6a5a9a2a-730b-49f7-9e42-2295040aee56.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 The data come from a number of Soviet era sources listing thousands of records of plant chemical composition, and from an additional number of secondary or field sources compiled since 1991. All sources are listed in the database, which holds only a fraction of the total information available. See documentation for more details.